Caterpillar, Inc

Lead Product Owner

Caterpillar, Inc$128K — $208K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in product management or related field
  • Strong background in business analysis with an emphasis on delivering stakeholder value
  • Proven skills in decision making and critical thinking
  • Effective communication capabilities across teams and stakeholders
  • Experience with software change request management processes
  • Knowledge of software engineering principles and practices
  • Experience in user acceptance testing (UAT)

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage the PAL intake and triage processes
  • Define and prioritize the PAL backlog across multiple domains
  • Resolve conflicts and duplication between overlapping PALs
  • Align PAL initiatives with business strategy and portfolio objectives
  • Coordinate with product teams for consistent PAL definitions and scopes
  • Drive release sequences and ensure cross-domain coordination
  • Maintain visibility of PAL priorities through governance reviews

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Comprehensive paid time off including vacation and holidays
  • 401(k) savings plan options
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
  • Health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
  • Career development and tuition reimbursement opportunities
  • Disability benefits and life insurance coverage
  • Access to employee assistance programs and wellness initiatives
  • Incentive bonuses and voluntary benefits
  • Parental leave and adoption assistance programs
Full Job Description
Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data

Job Description:

Job Summary
One Funnel is Caterpillar's unified approach to delivering targeted, data-driven actions to dealers across sales, service, and operations workflows. PALs (Prioritized Action Lists) are the core of this system-curated, actionable insights delivered to drive specific dealer outcomes.

The Lead Product Owner is responsible for defining and prioritizing PAL work across the portfolio by owning intake, backlog, and cross-domain coordination. This role ensures PAL development is aligned to business priorities and delivered as a unified system.

What You Will Do:
  • Own the PAL intake process, including triage and classification of requests
  • Define and manage the PAL backlog, prioritizing across domains
  • Resolve cross-product conflicts and duplication (e.g., overlapping PALs)
  • Align PAL work to business strategy and portfolio goals
  • Coordinate across product teams to ensure consistent PAL definitions and scope
  • Drive release sequencing and coordination across domains
  • Ensure visibility of priorities through portfolio reviews and governance forums
  • Establish and enforce clear criteria for PAL vs. product work
  • Own the PAL release process, coordinating with product and technical teams, write customer-facing release notes and co-author technical releases note with Lead One Funnel Specialist


What you will have:
  • Business Analysis: Knowledge of business analysis and the set of tasks, techniques and tools required to identify business needs; ability to recommend solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
  • Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
  • Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
  • Software Change Request Management: Knowledge of software change request management; ability to manage software product change requests from customers, prospective customers, vendors, and internal staff.
  • Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced fee-based software products.
  • Software Problem Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for resolving software problems; ability to manage software problems in installed software products.
  • Software Product Business Knowledge: Knowledge of and experience with the business aspects and operation of a software product; ability to manage install base, current uses, future plans, and product vision.
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Knowledge of UAT activities, tasks, tools and techniques; ability to design, implement and evaluate acceptance tests for end-users.


Consideration for top candidates:
  • Previous experience leading cross-product or portfolio-level alignment and governance, with the ability to drive alignment, surface dependencies, and push teams to collaborate in a structured but pragmatic way
  • Experience owning product structure and data discipline at scale, ensuring consistency in definitions, field ownership, and dependencies across multiple teams and domains
  • Proven ability to operate in ambiguous environments, establishing intake, prioritization, and release processes where none exist and bringing clarity, structure, and discipline without over-engineering


Additional Details:
  • This position requires the candidate to be in Chicago, IL, Peoria, IL or Dallas, TX
  • Domestic relocation assistance is available for this position
  • Visa sponsorship is NOT available with this position
  • This position will require up to 15% travel


Summary Pay Range:

$128,470.00 - $208,770.00

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.

Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
  • Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
  • 401(k) savings plans*
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)*
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
  • Health Lifestyle Programs*
  • Employee Assistance Program*
  • Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
  • Career Development*
  • Incentive bonus*
  • Disability benefits
  • Life Insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption benefits
  • Tuition Reimbursement


* These benefits also apply to part-time employees

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

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Progress Rail Services Corporation, a Caterpillar company, is one of the largest integrated and diversified suppliers of railroad and transit system products and services worldwide. Since its acquisition by Caterpillar Inc. in 2006, Progress Rail has used the Caterpillar international footprint to gain quick and widespread notice and approval across the globe. Product technology, reliability and durability, along with legendary aftermarket parts and service support, have been their keys to success. Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines and industrial gas turbines. The technology and world reach of Caterpillar, combined with the service standard and historical reliability of Progress Rail, ensures their products and services make a growing impact on the world rail industry. With their acquisition of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD), Progress Rail is the world's largest builder of diesel-electric locomotives for all commercial railroad applications including freight, intercity passenger, commuter, switching, industrial and mining. EMD is also a global provider of diesel power engines for marine propulsion, offshore and land based oil well drilling rigs and stationary power generation. Electro-Motive is the only diesel engine manufacturer of its size to have produced more than 70,000 engines. This success stems from product reliability, serviceability, load acceptance capability, low operating costs and ease of maintenance with standardized components.

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Learn more about Caterpillar, Inc
Size
107,700 employees
Market Cap
$125.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$2.9 billion
Founded
1925
5 Year Trend
+5.8%
Revenue
$41.7 billion
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